NTT Data opens four AI cyber defense centres in India

Global technology company NTT DATA has launched four autonomous Cyber Defense Centres powered by AI technologies in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Noida and Mumbai, with two additional centers set to open in Birmingham (UK) in Dec 2025 and Dallas (USA) by Jan 2026.

In a statement, NTT Data said these centres will focus on modernising cybersecurity for the AI era, which represent a shift from traditional centralised security operations to a distributed, AI-driven, hyper-automated model that learns from past incidents and human expertise to automate, triage and prioritize alerts, accelerate investigations and incident response, contain threats faster and support regional data privacy and cybersecurity regulations.

These centres will combine human security experts and AI agents to defend against evolving cyber threats. AI agents autonomously triage, analyse and hunt potential incidents, reducing investigation time by up to 60%, enabling teams to contain threats earlier in the kill chain. By automating high-volume, repetitive tasks, these capabilities free security analysts to focus on higher-value work such as digital forensics, containment and recovery, the statement said.

The four centres in India will expand NTT DATA’s global cybersecurity footprint across five continents, supported by more than 40 delivery centres and security operations centres in over 50 countries.

“Our expanding footprint of next-generation Cyber Defense Centers enables us to meet the rising demand for AI-powered cybersecurity services, defend against AI-enabled threats and help our clients advance their edge-to-cloud digital transformation journeys,” said Charlie Li, Head of Cloud and Security Services, NTT DATA.

These centres will operate in collaboration with regional Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs), National Cyber Security Centres (NCSCs) and government agencies to help clients meet local data privacy and AI-regulation requirements.